The third Architecture as Public Concern Lecture supports the CCA Research Network, an entity bringing together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture explores the theme of the 2025 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, how can we build relation? It also aligns with the ambition of the CCA Research Network to(...)
CCA Research Network
12 November 2025, 10am to 11:30am
2025 Architecture as Public Concern Lecture: How Can We Build Relation?
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The third Architecture as Public Concern Lecture supports the CCA Research Network, an entity bringing together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture explores the theme of the 2025 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, how can we build relation? It also aligns with the ambition of the CCA Research Network to(...)
CCA Research Network
Where—and how—do we want to live as we grow older? Will our neighborhoods, our buildings, our cities be able to meet our needs? The evening begins with a screening of the documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min), which explores how architecture and urban planning can respond to the challenges of an aging population. The screening will be followed by a(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 February 2026, 6pm
Film and conversation: Where Will We Grow Older?
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Where—and how—do we want to live as we grow older? Will our neighborhoods, our buildings, our cities be able to meet our needs? The evening begins with a screening of the documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min), which explores how architecture and urban planning can respond to the challenges of an aging population. The screening will be followed by a(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Rooted in acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings, the work of Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers resists erasure by honouring natural cycles and fostering continuity between past, present, and future.
13 November 2025, 6pm to 7:30pm
Placekeeping with Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers
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Rooted in acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings, the work of Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers resists erasure by honouring natural cycles and fostering continuity between past, present, and future.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Zomia Garden, Emerging Curator Residency Program, Yutong Lin, CCA Singles
26 June 2025, 6pm
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Zomia Garden, Emerging Curator Residency Program, Yutong Lin, CCA Singles
Join us on 8 May at 6pm for a lecture by Noelia Monteiro on her work at Estudio Flume. The studio, based in São Paulo, develops socio-environmental projects in remote areas of Brazil, aiming to protect traditional communities that preserve the Amazon rainforest. Monteiro’s work poses a key question: in the face of resource scarcity, how can we build with almost nothing?(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2025, 6pm
Groundwork with Noelia Monteiro
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Join us on 8 May at 6pm for a lecture by Noelia Monteiro on her work at Estudio Flume. The studio, based in São Paulo, develops socio-environmental projects in remote areas of Brazil, aiming to protect traditional communities that preserve the Amazon rainforest. Monteiro’s work poses a key question: in the face of resource scarcity, how can we build with almost nothing?(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Where We Grow Older
The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Where We Grow Older
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The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Please join us for a conversation around Samia Hennis latest publication, Toxicité Coloniale : Documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara, published in French by Éditions B42. On this occasion, Henni will present how this project came to be and the creative process behind this edition.
12 March 2026, 6pm
Book Launch: Colonial Toxicity with Samia Henni
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Please join us for a conversation around Samia Hennis latest publication, Toxicité Coloniale : Documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara, published in French by Éditions B42. On this occasion, Henni will present how this project came to be and the creative process behind this edition.
The 2025 Toolkit for Today explores how computational optics are systems of perception powered by software, and is organized in collaboration with researcher, graphic designer, and new media artist Simone Niquille.
14 July 2025 to 18 July 2025
Toolkit for Today: Computation Is the New Optics
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The 2025 Toolkit for Today explores how computational optics are systems of perception powered by software, and is organized in collaboration with researcher, graphic designer, and new media artist Simone Niquille.
This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
19 February 2026, 6pm to 8pm
Discussion: Revolutionary Matter
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This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
Join us on for a 90-minute workshop on the evolution and legacy of hip hop and urban space, where we will listen to rap music, write lyrics, and draw maps in graffiti.
21 February 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Grown from the Concrete: Hip Hop and Urban Space
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Join us on for a 90-minute workshop on the evolution and legacy of hip hop and urban space, where we will listen to rap music, write lyrics, and draw maps in graffiti.